CAPABILITIES Adding Value Through Innovation

With over 20 years of experience in the water treatment field, Ampac USA has become a leader in the supply of skid mounted water sys-tems. Our team has developed and implemented innovative solutions for customers all over the world. From the jungles to the arctic, thousands of Ampac treatment systems are operating today. Always ready to respond, the Ampac team has the flexibility to quickly bring ideas from concept to reality. Listening to the needs of its customers allows Ampac to offer customer driven solutions. customized to specific industries.

The Ampac manufacturing team has capabilities and experience in:

Welding of aluminum and steel frames

Welding of stainless steel and duplex piping spools

Pipefitting in PVC80, FRP, brass and stainless steel

Electrical work in compliance with NEC accepted practice

Hydrostatic testing

Functional testing

At the core of every Ampac water treatment solution is attention to details in the process design and the materials and components selection. It‘s the balance between relentless refinement & innovative engineering that creates satisfied customers. Contact Ampac USA today and our professional staff will review your water treatment inquiries and will provide you with an up to date and detailed equipment proposal.

Specific application capabilities:

Reverse osmosis systems for bore well water treatment, water stores or seawater desalination

Shipboard military RO systems for Frigates and Fast Patrol Boats

Ultra-filtration systems for sepa-rations in food processing such as diary

Drinking water treatment such as sub-micron ceramic filtration, ultra violet disinfection units, and ozone injection

Solar powered treatment plants

Electrodeionization treatment for ultrapure water

Lab water systems for medical and pharmaceutical applications.

Ampac USA systems utilize field proven technologies and top of the line components to provide plug and play solutions. Designing & Manufacturing products that last in tougher conditions comes from a legacy of hands-on experi-ence and site work. Being out in real world operating environments allows our technical team to understand what works and what keeps working. And where there is no proven water treatment solutions, Ampac USA is always ready to demonstrate new treatment methodologies introducing custom pilot plant studies and bench scale demonstrations.

The Ampac USA engineering team provide Advanced designs, develop, configurations, testing and field sup-port for projects. The engineers are experienced in the design and the analysis of membrane arrays, with structural assemblies, piping sys-tems and control systems.

Small Mobile Water Purification systems are available mounted in a hard shell case for the ultimate in portability. Pictured above is a full seawater system capable of producing 8 GPH drinking water at 68 lbs weight. Bore well water systems are lighter. And UF / UV systems are even smaller and light enough for back pack carrying. These systems can be configured in AC or DC power and are good candidates for solar power emergency systems.

Faced with unreliable water supplies in Iraq, the US Department of Defense commissioned the supply of 20 solar powered water treatment plants. These treatment plants needed to be self sufficient in power to provide water purifica-tion whether or not local electric power is available.

PORTABLE WATER SOLUTIONS Solar Power Options Provide Flexibility

Engineers turned to power from the sun by providing an array of solar panels above the water treatment system and a bank of batteries in the base to smooth the power. To fulfill the mobility specification, Ampac provided solar panels can be low-ered and folded down around the machine to provide a 7 foot cube unit that can be transported & deployed by truck (shown at left). The solar panel setup uses hydraulic power assist to unfold and angle the panels and then connect it to the supplied water hoses. Total set up time is 15 minutes by two operators. Ampac USA supplied 50 of the units with components to treat brackish water from bore wells; each unit is rated at a capacity of 8,000 USGPD. Ten more units were supplied to desalinate Sea Water.

The Gumdoksuri Fast Patrol Boat (Class PKG-B) is a 200 ton displacement vessel entering service in South Korea Navy. The vessel features twin water jet propulsion, suitable for high speed pursuit and patrol. The first hull of a planned 20 ship fleet was launched in 2013 from the Kangnam Ship building yard in Busan, S. Korea. Based on maximum mission length and the crew size, the freshwater specification called for capability of 5000 gallons per day potable water. Key to the supply requirement was a hatchway dimension of 20 inches by 20 inches necessary for installation and the service of the water maker. Ampac USA provided a compact semi-modular watermaker with main frame of only 52” wide by 18” deep x 18” high allowing it to fit through the hatchway. The small size is possible by utilizing the new improvements in reverse osmosis membranes productivity and high efficiency pumps. Ampac performed final commissioning of the watermaker at the shipyard in Busan.

El Secreto Boutique resort is located on the Belize coast 50 miles from San Pedro. Opened in 2012, the intimate luxury resort retreat offers a distinctly relaxed, yet sophisticated experience on Belize’s Ambergris Cove. Accessible only by boat and tucked away in its own private beachfront enclave, El Secreto has 13 ’barefoot luxury’ villas.

The remote resort location required developers to be self sufficient for both power and water supply.

SEAWATER DESALINATORS Land Based and Naval

The source of water available is through beach well supply with a salt content of 34,000 ppm average total dissolved solids (TDS). Ampac USA supplied the El Secreto with a skid mounted seawater reverse osmosis system integrating two separate 12,000 GPD trains on the one skid. The two watermakers can be operated on a duty - standby cycle or both can be operated at the same time to produce 24,000 GPD .

Feed Seawater is pretreated by a granular activated carbon filter for removal of organics and sediment and by an ion exchange softener bed. The R/O membranes efficiently reduce the salt content by over 99.2% to provide Pure Drinking water compliant with potable water standards. Post treatment provided on the skid is done by a neutralizing remineralizer, a ceramic sub-micron filter, final stage is by an ultraviolet disinfection sterilizer.

The combination of ceramic filter and ultraviolet light provides the utmost security of water supply for guests at the resort.

Ampac supplied an automated 3000 GPD seawater desalination water maker for land-based installation for the Ecuadorian Air Force on the famous Galapagos Island. The unit takes seawater from an open ocean intake and processes it to safe drinking water quality with the final processes of sub-micron ceramic filtration and ultraviolet disinfection.

SEAWATER DESALINATORS Marine and Offshore

MARINSA de MEXICO SA de CV is a major provider of all type of marine and offshore service vessels for the oil and gas industry in the Bay of Campeche. The Marinsa charter fleet includes fast supply vessels, offshore supply vessels, crew boats and pilot boats. When Marinsa committed to fleet expansion with the additional Offshore Supply Vessels Marinsa Amethyst and Turquoise, the ships underwent refit work to provide the capabilities needed for offshore drilling.

Fresh water generation on board is needed to provide water for drilling mud mixing, cementing and for all the potable requirements of the crew who can be offshore for weeks at a time. Fresh water demand usually fluctuate widely depending on the mission scope, but regardless, Marinsa needs a reliable source of fresh water supply. And the equip-ment needed to be supplied quickly to match an aggressive shipyard schedule.

Ampac USA supplied Marinsa two 40,000 GPD watermakers, one in-stalled on each of the new OSV’s. To simplify the installation, each wa-termaker was supplied as three mod-ules. The main module included the control center, the instruments, and the pre-filtration. The RO mem-branes were racked in a separate module. The high pressure pumps were mounted on the final skid. Ful-ly automated operation is from the color touchscreen mimic display, showing and recording all operation-al parameters.

The USCGC Dallas (WHEC 716) served the United States for 44 years in a wide variety of military, search & rescue and hu-manitarian missions. In 2012 the Dallas was decommissioned and transferred to the Philippines under provisions of the US For-eign Assistance Act. The ship was re-named the BRP Ramon Alcaraz (FP-16), as a Philippine Navy Gregorio del Pilar class Frigate. The Alcaraz has 3250 tons dis-placement with overall length of 378 feet. The propulsion system features both 2 x 18000 horsepower Pratt & Whitney gas turbine jet engines and 2 x 3500 horsepow-er Fairbanks Morse diesels. In 2013, the Philippine Navy installed a modern Ampac RO type watermaker on the Alcaraz to replace the aging evaporator system. Ampac USA provided a complete RO system with pre- and post-treatment for a safe and reliable 6000 GPD production of potable water. The digital control system allows straightforward operation and the full complement of safety shutdowns.

The Italian based confectioner Ferre-ro Rocher recently opened a new US$190 million production facility in San José de Iturbe, Guanajuato, Mexico. The 40,000 square meter operation has the ultimate capacity to process 35,000 tons of chocolate products annually.

FOOD PROCESSING Washing, Processing and Packaging Water

Chocolate forming molds are used, and the mold trays are carefully cleaned for reuse. The cleaning must meet the highest sanitation level, must not leave any water spots on the molds, and must not burnish the shiny smooth mold surface so that finished production drops out without sticking. The molding cleaning machines im-ported from Switzerland require a water quality of less than 20 micro Siemens / cm2 conductivity for prop-er operation. Ampac USA provided a brackish water treatment system to provide 12,000 GPD of the high puri-ty soft water required. An extensive pretreatment process included twin softeners for the raw bore well water followed by a multimedia filter and micron filters. Ampac was on site for the initial commissioning and the operator training at which time the produced water quality was demon-strated at 2 micro Siemens / cm2.

Agua Modelo de Culiacan SA de CV has been providing clean and safe bottled water in Sinaloa since 1957. In western Mexico, Sinaloa is a semi-arid agricultural region where the summers are very hot and humid. The raw water source is a series of pri-vate borewells operated by Agua Modelo. Ampac USA supplied the Agua Culiacan with a 84,000 GPD skid mounted RO watermaker system. Feed water is pretreated by a granular activated carbon filter for removal of organics and sediment. Additional pretreatment by twin cartridge filters further reduces the solids to 5 microns or less. The reverse osmosis system then uses membranes to reduce the salts and the hardness. Ampac provides a skid mounted solution that allowed quick installa-tion. The control system starts and stops the treatment processes on demand and provides all necessary safety shutdowns for unattended operation.

MEDICAL INDUSTRY Lab Quality Water

The BSN Medical plant in Reynosa, Mexico produces a range of products for casting, bandages and compres-sion therapy. Lab grade water is necessary to ensure complete purity in the final products. The ASTM D1193-6 standard establishes four grades of lab water. The most pure is Type I which is commonly used in lab research and in the medical in-dustry. The Type I water required by BSN must have a resistivity of at least 18 megaohm-cm and must have total organic carbon below 50 parts per billion. At Reynosa, the borewell water source water has a heavy load of fine silt (photos at top left). To purify this silty water to a Type I standard for medical prod-ucts, Ampac USA supplied a con-tainerized 60,000 GPD treatment plant.

Thorough pre-treatment was neces-sary, including chlorine dosing for disinfection, cyclone grit separator, granular activated carbon media fil-ter, a second cyclone, and twin 5 micron sediment filters. Stainless steel multistage pumps then drive the water through reverse osmosis membranes where the soluble con-taminants are removed with over 99% effectiveness. Final polishing treatment is by a bank of deioniza-tion resin tanks. The final water produced meets the 18 Megaohm water standard and can be used safely in the manufacture of the bandages and casts where sterility is essential to prevent infection.

BioSpectra is a leading contract manu-facturer and producer of biological buff-ers and laboratory reagents. At their two facilities in Bangor and Strouds-berg, PA, BioSpectra manufactures pH stabilizing biological buffers for the bio-pharmaceutical industry. These biologi-cal buffers offer low UV absorptivity, minimal reactivity, stable pH and high solubility in water for use in various bio-logical applications. In both facilities, Biospectra requires deionized water meeting the ASME type I high purity standard of greater than 18 Megaohm-cm resistance. Ampac USA supplied 1000 GPD lab water systems to meet the require-ment. The automated, low pressure reverse osmosis membranes reduce the dissolved solids down to “distilled water” levels, and then mixed bed resin canisters finish the treatment to the de-ionized level. These units have a glass door and key protection against inad-vertent adjustment.

Ampac cabinet purification systems can supply 8 gallons per hour Water for Injection according to US Phar-macopoeia standards. A storage tank in the base provides sterile water on demand . A circulation pump is constantly treating the tank water through the ultraviolet disinfector to ensure the highest quality water.

In 2009, Melones Oil Terminal Inc commenced a $90 million program to devel-op a bunker fuel transfer facility at Melones Island. Prior to construction, the island was an uninhabited rock outcrop 8 nautical miles from the Pacific en-trance of the Panama Canal. The finished facility comprises 16 storage tanks and a T-shaped pier configured for the simultaneous berthing of tankers and bunkering barges. Now completed, the terminal stores and distributes bunker and diesel fuel to vessels transiting the Panama Canal. Fresh water was needed during construction, for mixing concrete and other needs. Ampac sup-plied a containerized seawater RO desalinator that was placed on site beside the storage tanks and genset for a complete system. The seawater supply was from a submerged stainless steel pump suspended off the pier. The Ampac system is designed for automated operation. The multimedia filter backwashes automatically after initiating a temporary system shutdown, and after backwash the RO restarts without the attention of an operator. Level switches in the storage tanks also start and stop the RO system automatically to maintain full tanks of fresh water supply. Furthermore, this Ampac system is designed to operate without the requirement of chemical dosing, so there is no transport, storage or handling of liquid chemicals.

CONSTRUCTION Water for Work Camps and Industry

The Oyu Tolgoi mine development in Mongolia represents a decade long $10 billion investment for majority owner Rio Tinto. The mine combines open pits and underground extraction. It is located in an unpopulated desert area about 80 km from the Chinese border. Once at full production of 430,000 tons copper annually, it will represent 30% of the country's GNP and about 3% of the global copper supply. Initial production started in 2013 and is expected to ramp until full operation by 2018. Project management company Fluor has built the hous-ing for up to 10,000 workers. Two Ampac 75,000 GPD brackish reverse osmo-sis treatment plants provide fresh water for the camp boiler feed, for cooling wa-ter make-up, for the kitchens and for showers & washing. The raw water source is from deep borewells in the desert. The hard water was dosed with scale in-hibiting chemicals to prevent mem-brane fouling. Final treatment by ozone and UV is included on the skids.

INDUSTRY Manufacturing and Industrial Water

The Bellefonte Nuclear site is in the very northeast corner of Alabama near the town of Hollywood. Ampac USA supplied four separate brackish water treatment plants to the Belle-fonte site. Three package plants are rated at 10,000 gallons per day (GPD) each and one is rated at 18,000 GPD. All four process bore-well water down to < 5 ppm pure wa-ter for use at the plant.

Battery manufacturing produces wastewater with lead contamination. To comply with recent waste dispos-al regulations in Ecuador, produc-tion facilities are starting to imple-ment water treatment systems for reuse of water and for disposal compliance. Ampac recently sup-plied a 6600 GPD package system for Fundametz and a 30,000 GPD system for Bosch battery plants in Ecuador.

In 2011 the University of Virginia in Charlottesville began construction of a new chiller facility. Five 1200 ton chillers in the North Chiller Plant were at the end of their useful life and were being taken out of ser-vice. To ensure an adequate and reliable supply of cold water to the U.Va Medical Center, the new East Chiller facility was sized for three 2000 ton chillers ini-tially and ultimate capacity of 10,000 tons. Total pro-ject budget is $36.5 mil-lion. Circulating water in the chillers will have elevated levels of salts and hard-ness as it is concentrated through evaporation. To avoid scaling, manageable concentrations are main-tained by “blowdown” dis-charge of a portion of cir-culating water and the ad-dition of pure “make up” water. The University required a treatment plant to purify the blow-down waste for reuse as make up water. The benefits are both the reduction of wastewater to the city sewer system and the reduction of freshwater requirements. Ampac USA supplied the University with a 72,000 GPD skid mounted reverse osmosis package. Feed water is the raw blowdown water

from the chillers at up to 5000 ppm TDS. Based on a recovery of 50 to 60%, the Ampac system provides ultrapure water at 5 ppm TDS or less for reuse in the chiller circula-tion. To remove organics and possi-ble trace oil and grease, an oversize granular activated carbon filter is included in the pretreatment. To avoid RO membrane fouling from sparingly soluble salts, an automated dosing system of scale inhibitor de-ters micro-crystal growth of foulants.

WATERSTORE Drinking Water Systems for Bottlers

Ampac USA has supplied hundreds of Water Store RO systems to local bot-tlers in the US and all around the world. The most important aspect is the reliable supply of safe, clean puri-fied water. Ampac can supply sys-tems customized to meet specific requirements and handle specific inlet conditions. Common features imple-mented on skid are:

Ion-exchange softeners

Carbon filters for chlorine removal

15,000 GPD

72,000 GPD

10,000 GPD

4,500 GPD

Ultraviolet disinfection

Ozone treatment

Storage tank recirculation treat-ment

Delivery pumps with pressure tanks

Filling stations

Sub-micron ceramic filtration

PLC controls for automatic con-trol of backwashing and monitor-ing of water quality

The Radiator Springs Racers attrac-tion opened 2012 in Disney’s Califor-nia Adventure Park in Anaheim Cali-fornia. Based on the theme of the 2006 Disney Pixar movie CARS, the opening culminates many years of planning and construction. Consid-ered among the most expensive theme park attractions ever built, the cost is estimated at over $200 mil-lion. Before racing in open top slot-cars, the riders are taken through prepara-tion where half the cars get a tire change at Luigi’s Casa Della Tires and half go through Ramone’s House of Body Art. In the paint shop, the vehicles are given a fresh coat of paint by a mock up of a mechanized paint sprayer. The paint nozzle is actually shooting wa-ter at high pressure made to look like paint.

SPECIAL PROJECTS Custom Water Treatment Applications

To ensure the water nozzles would not scale and the freshly “painted” cars would not dry with water spots, Disney needed a reliable water treat-ment system for the Radiator Springs attraction. Ampac USA had already supplied 19 previous treatment skids for the vari-ous Disney parks worldwide, so was familiar with meeting the exacting corporate standards. The treatment package is rated at 10,000 GPD of soft spot-free water. The feed supply is Anaheim city water, which is first pretreated for chlorine removal. The reverse osmosis process cleans the water down to about 3 ppm of total dissolved solids and then twin ion exchange resin tanks to polish the water for high purity deionized water standards for completely spot free performance.

Dairy whey and milk solids treat-ment uses Ultrafiltration membranes at low pressure to concentrate sol-ids for separation and reuse as ani-mal feed or soil amendment.

Certain medical water purification systems require the use of certified non-leaching materials. The pho-tos below shows blue LEXAN piping used on an Ampac 4500 GPD for Vipsmed in Moscow, Russia.

REFERENCES Some of Ampac USA Customers

REFERENCES Some of Ampac USA Customers

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CONTACT AMPAC USA For all your Water Treatment Requirements

Contact Ampac USA for unique packaging frame requirements, and special custom applications such as the Frame units pictured above with special anchoring for LNG & LPG applications. From residential small systems to large factory and off-shore reverse osmosis systems, from 100 gpd to 500,000 gpd. Contact: info@ampac1.com

Contact Ampac for consumables and supplies. A vast selection of filter elements, RO membranes, housings, pumps, fittings, valves and instruments in stock. And when we don’t have what you need, we can get it quickly. Contact: parts@ampac1.com

Contact Ampac for portable spot-free rinse water systems. Dolly mounted units are easily moved and can be used for car lot washing, boat washing or

window washing for complete spot free drying without rub down or squeegee wiping. Contact: mobile@ampac1.com

Contact Ampac USA for Technical Water requirements. Offshore sys-tems with seawater inlet and boiler feed quality outlet can be supplied with double pass RO in one simple and compact package. Contact: tech@ampac1.com

Contact Ampac for containerized systems. A wide variety of treat-ment systems can be supplied in ISO shipping containers. Contain-ers can be provided with air condi-tioning, interior lights, power gener-ators, remote monitoring or insula-tion. Contact: custom@ampac1.com